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Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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its a boomer cliche but its true, stuff used to be made to last a lot longer. Old electrodomestics were good for a lifetime but planned obsolence was ramped up, the acceptable time for a product to fail has gone shorter and shorter. Nothing worse than what happened to clothes and shoes though, prices maintained or increased but quality lowered all across the board in products from name brands.
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I do not know about Catholic countries, but marriages and weddings in Orthodox countries are not associated with the church. Only some newlyweds choose to go through the church ceremony. Although, funnily enough, priests do demand a marriage certificate to hold this function.
A staple of weddings in my country is renting a limousine or some other fancy car, decorating it with plastic flowers, and rolling around the city while honking incessantly to make everybody aware some couple of gits are getting married.
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Been slowly getting into vinyl and holy gods is it chock full of consoomerism, even just focusing on the records themselves while ignoring all the audiophile autism with setups which is an entirely different discussion. I haven't even been looking into the more mainstream scene, which I bet is just as messy, but mainly the indie future funk and Retrowave stuff that (along with Vaporwave) is full of extreme limited releases that sell out in minutes eaten up by scalpers which makes the secondary market plain awful. You also have people obsessed with owning as many records as they can regardless of even liking them, just wanting to flex how much they spend while crying about no money. It's not like Future Funk or Vaporwave songs are even that original since a good chunk is just 'old song sped/slowed down' with most of the good artists quickly moving on to actual original pursuits like with Saint Pepsi switching to Skylar Spence.
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It's why I bought my Kitchenaid that came with all metal parts. I remember reading reviews back in 2011 from old lady cooking forums that talked about how their Grandmother passed down their mixer to them and that the new Pretty Pastel Kitchenaid's that were $250 often came with plastic parts that broke. I don't even want to know what it's like now, 10 years later, but I doubt they've attempted to increase the quality.
I honestly cherish and love the old things I'm given because shit today s u c k s and yet no one seems to care. Boomers bemoan it and a few of my Millennial generation is catching on, yet I still see more of a push these days to have Matching Sets of Everything to make sure your kitchen is just the *right* aesthetic.
All photos taken at the right angles to highlight how "comfy/cozy/cottagecore" it is. It's all a grand illusion. Pretty, modern kitchens that have pressboard cabinets, white tiles and counters, but hints of wood to remind you that they are still rustic at heart. It's a faux magazine-quality photo. It's supposed to invoke feelings of wistfulness (and jealousy) in those that see this and know their kitchen isn't so bright/white/rustic/cottagey/uwu.
Even though you know in less than 6 years they'll have to change their appliances because they broke. But at that time, they'll probably already be renovating for the next fad. Those plain white dishes will be thrown out with the broken Maytag Dishwasher, along with the cabinets, tiles, counter, and shelves. Paint will be slapped down, kitschy bowls/jars and books will sit on counters, and a whole new wave of aesthetic photos will follow.
At least the dumpster diving will be nice.
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Mine too! But instead of a Limousine, it's a 10 year old corolla model.
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My mind is blown. And the comments are giving me cancer.
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These cups are ugly, why do women obsess over them? For a group of people who apparently care about "beauty" and "aesthetics" they have no taste in either. The cups themselves are the most generic shape possible, they're just upsized McDonald's cups with harder plastic. The vertical straw is off putting and garish to the eyes, and the designs they choose are fucking trash. "Omg I need the sparkly gold one with studs all around it!, and the one with silver studs!, and the one with a Mickey mouse emblem!, and....".
I really just don't get it, they're just the same generic cup with a different print/texture on them. If you're gonna design a commonly used object (like a cup) either commit to engineering something actually unique and interesting, or don't mass print the same cup with a slightly different design.
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I appreciate that you're acknowledginging the distinction between the millennial aesthetics and that of the GenZ crowd. There's definitely crossover in the groups (e.g. cottagecore) but as you pointed out, the millennial take on those aesthetics is more of this magazine-shoot "perfect life" illusion, while the GenZ take is more like this stuff:
From what I'm learning in this thread, it's not about the cup quality, it's that the cup is from a recognizable brand, is "collectable" and is something both familiar and "luxurious".
To my understanding, the comparison they're making is against something like a cheap tumbler from their local big box store.
What gets me, though, is that Starbucks has actually made a few nice/unique things as well outside of the US. I actually really like these two Korean sets:
Why would you choose something like the below, when the above is also an option?
They're like the Rae Dunn people.
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You know it's really fucking telling when the Mcdonalds Disney world commemorative drink glasses celebrating the year 2000 from back when I was a kid were like 3 or 5 dollars or some shit are still plentiful and in really fucking decent condition (I should know I've had like 2 or 3 of the things my whole damn life) but modern disney shit is $40 starbucks cups that look like they cost 10 and lack any actual original art aside from variations on a logo. Same "durability and quality despite fast food promo item" thing goes for the 2001 lord of the rings burger king glasses but that's another fucking story unrelated to disney.
My point is this shit looks like it shoudn't be anywhere near the price it is, same vibe as that $500 yugioh duel disc I saw a few years back that somehow had less features than the $20 one I got when I was an actual kid that's probably rotting somewhere in some closet. I remember consoomers went nuts over that fucking thing "ooh it plays the theme song wooooow" like ok sure but the disc doesnt flip around automatically like it does in the show. The og cheapass one does. fucking doodoot noises don't mean shit when you can push a button and the force of god comes down and slaps the 2 halfs of that thing together.
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Are we ever getting out of that goddamn white rooms trend?
My mother watches HGTV and such religiously, I get eye twitch each time it is white, SHADE OF LIGHT GREY/PINK but is actually white, or painted (white) wood.
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I get stressed just looking at white kitchen counters, all the stain that never will come out.
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It's just all lunacy.
I'm going to be honest. I fucking despise cottagecore. The romanticization of being a poorfag while also spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on said "Aesthetic" comes off as extremely condescending. This UwU Simple Life Cottage ideal always comes from the middle-to-upper class who has no idea how anything works but they dream about escaping their suburban life for basically their same house with all working ammenities (and internet), yet when they look outside they see a lilac bush and cows and horses while they bake a loaf of french bread.
There's no piles of manure you moved with a tractor. No broken down machinery - no broken anything, no lopsided fences, no rotting straw heaps, no unmatched sheds/barn or fallen down structures. It's fucking a movie set. Whimiscal, just a little rustic and quirky, clean, and Instagrammable. Because that's what farming is, right? Not hard work.
I'm so happy land here is at least $700,000+ for something decent so those aesthetic chasers can't afford it. They can stay in the city far the fuck away from us ruralfags.
I learned something today. I hate Rae Dunn pottery.
We will, because back in the early 2000s, the big trend was granite stone, dark burgundy walls, mid-to-light wood cabinets, and big honking floor tiles. Now that looks extremely dated, just as I know this White Trend will look dated soon. Even though I don't actually mind HGTV shows like HomeTown and Fixer Upper, I really can't wait for that whole aesthetical look to blow over. The modern minimalistic rooms with rustic barn doors or aged barn wood shelves with single macrame plant holder. It'll definitely date itself and a whole new line of HGTV shows will come to re-rennovate those spaces again for $30,000-50,000
Let's be real, the people who own pure white kitchens probably don't cook. They SkiptheDishes chinese food and leave the fork they ate with in the sink for 2 days before washing it.
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There's white kitchens, and then theres' this shit. I've seen my fair share of white colored kitchens inmy life. Usually you can wipe stains out if it's not like something really intense. There's always still a bit of dirt or crumbs around the stove area that give the knowledge the people actually use the kitchen, maybe a scrape or slight stain on the counter, maybe an uncleanable splatter or 3. These ones, however, have that uncanny "stock photo" look to them, both layout and unsettlingly clean-ness wise.
Fork in the sink thing though you're absolutely right on with though. I thought that was just a common kitchen thing though? people throw shit in the sink till they feel like washing it. Unless you're a restaurant then it's pretty normal for that kind of thing.
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I usually wash my dishes right away after I use them, but I use my sink for a lot of things so I usually need it to be empty. I wouldn't snub my nose down at anyone who does let an amount build up before they clean, but I notice with my friends they usually have forks in theirs with a layer of dried stuff on it, which they then fill up the sink too hot to "soak" it, leave it for so long it gets cold, then they complain they wish they had a dishwasher.
And they sure the hell don't cook. Unless you count microwaving pizza pockets as cooking.
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My immediate response to this was: what on earth are you expecting other people on Reddit to tell you about this? This is literally therapy fuel.
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Vitamins for TV game?
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Cooking is an inherently messy process even when done properly. There's a reason commercial kitchens are all stainless. Gotta clean that shit.
When ever I see immaculately clean kitchens and good looking obviously not lived in interiors, I don't even think stock photos. I think 3D rendered with Vray.
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. They probably use plastic sporks that came with the rice in a box.